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Show IAIL STRIKE IN J ULSTTOOM I N G I RAILROADS MAY FOLLOW CUTS M Strike Votes Sent Out to Unions Returnable on June 30 30 DAYS TO COUNT Labor Board Takes Up Dispute Between Roads and Shopmen CINCINNATI, Ohio June 7. (By the wK-lated Praea) A triple barreled bar-reled strike vote. Calling lor a (Mill ol tin 100,000 railway shopmen! of thfc -onntry on thro nepanUK questions a ordi nal b the eaOQUtive councu if the sl lioficrafl - unions here to- day Inst ructions were -cnt by B. M. . lew, 11. head of the -hop nnlons, to I headquarten In Chicago, to erpcdlte the printing and dlstSlbntlon of tho ballots with all MiK-lblc srn- d tiu'vtlons on which the men will rOtC are: I, Seven rules including five wiping wip-ing out time ami one-half for overtime promulgated by the railroad labor board, with wiii-ii tin- shopmen are not satisfied Thj ' farming out ' of shop work bv ihe railroad to outside firms; UV legal Installation pf plcs-o work; anfl the alleged arbitrary and unauthorized reduction of wagtrs on the part of some roads ! S. The ngr ent of the labor board announced rucsdaj effective Jnly L CHICAGO. Jam 7 Strike ballots returnable June 30. went out todaj H emplo erected by wag reductions ordered by the Unlteal H States railroad labor board The vote will be taken by Individual H unions whose 1.200.000 members are H affected in orders cither Issued or H Paralysis of the nation's railroads July 1. loomed as a possibility as a re- H nun. ot i i re i i'uui iiuua which iiiivu ll i - h slashed $110,000,000 from ths H wages of lie- workers. The wage cut PtiVl J.ll-. i Ml (. in 1isIT.TFS .Meanwhile, th - board Is preparing H to hear disputes 'his month between H rafts empl lyea and some of tho H railroads over alleged unauthorized H wage reductions and pleco work. B H M Jewell, head of the railway em- H ployes department of the American H adlng H the fight against ihe board's orders. H was informed that the first of tho H hearings will be held tomorrow Twer.- H ty-one railroads are cited for alleged gl unauthorised wage reductions for th hearing. I H I -s HANI WEEKS Hearings on tin disputes are ex- ''i'iSssl pected t run several weeks. ' H It was Indicated today that no w.Tgo H decision affecMng teleeraDhf rs th sssssssl next class of railroad labor to be tak- H en up by the board, win como from H the board for some time. The split H the labor board was apparently H widened by the latest wage reduction ! H the $60.000.1101.1 slash In the wages f shopcrafts employe-. The minority H report by the three labor represents!- H tives on the board, severely condemn- H ing the majority which ordered tho ibbbbbH reductions, was still a topic of dlS- . ussion today, and provided amniuni- H 'ion for union men who attacked tho iiH I ui v mm: m ,,, vi 1 I ;CINN Tl June 7 Lahoi lead- ers here i.pres-"d the opinion that 1 It would take at least 30 davs to spread nd cam as authorized TjeiJay by eleven lallroad proximately 1,200,000 worki The meeting of union heads ' at which it was decided to authorize thj H strike vote was pr sided over by Q H M. Jewell, president of tho railroad H department. American Federation of isssssssl '- bor. h k hIIH 1 1 1 Ml NT M DF In a formal statement, it was madi bbbbbH plain Ihat no itrr'monr was reach, d LH hat concejrted action would be tak- ibbbbbH en. inn was impossible. It was ex- H nialned because group executives had H not been advised by their membershlr H whether or not thes would bo author. H to call a strike fH Mr. Jewell, in a statement, declared bbbbbbbbI he wages of the seven larger group H of rail workers, under the new rail- H road labor hoard orders, "do not per- LtjjiiH I mlt of a living wage." and ar0 wholly H varianco with tho "saving wage" H championed by Secretary of Labor H Oavls and President Harding. "Tho nassssssl labor board, a federal body." he said. H "has totally disregarded the secre- tary'a attitude ..s .- as the employe iIbbbbH own evidence showing the amount necessary to malnlain a railroadman's ssssssssl family." 1 |